A Gary Marcus meme jokes that the AI apocalypse argument will keep moving the goalposts
wordgrammer · x · 2026-07-23
A joke post predicts that by 2035 Gary Marcus will once again move the goalposts on AI doom arguments.
- The punchline imagines a future where the “apocalypse” claim gets even more absurd, including hacking nuclear codes or proving mathematical theorems.
- It works as an AI-community meme about how some critics are perceived as constantly revising their arguments as models improve.
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